Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf is the author and speaker of "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown." She is an English author best known for her novels about female protagonists navigating their social and familial worlds. Woolf has been hailed by critics as a writer of feminist literature, illustrated by her interest in female characters and in her advocacy of women's careers. She was part of the Bloomsbury Group, which was a group of English intellectuals interested in modernism and its manifestation in literature and art. Woolf is known for pioneering the stream-of-consciousness writing style, in which the writer follows no precise timeline or logic and instead styles their work around the whims of the mind.

In the essay, Woolf speaks as herself and is determined to defend the Georgian writers against the criticisms of Arnold Bennett. She is particularly interested in the concept of character and the way Edwardian...